Bossy or wimpy: expressing social dominance by combining gaze and linguistic behaviors

Authors:
Nikolaus Bee;Colin Pollock;Elisabeth André;Marilyn Walker
Affiliations:
Institute of Computer Science, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany;University of California, Santa Cruz;Institute of Computer Science, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany;University of California, Santa Cruz
Venue:
IVA'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper examines the interaction of verbal and nonverbal information for conveying social dominance in intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). We expect expressing social dominance to be useful in applications related to persuasion and motivation; here we simply test whether we can affect users' perceptions of social dominance using procedurally generated conversational behavior. Our results replicate previous results showing that gaze behaviors affect dominance perceptions, as well as providing new results showing that, in our experiments, the linguistic expression of disagreeableness has a significant effect on dominance perceptions, but that extraversion does not.